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D. E. PARIS.

Domestic Oven.

No. 78,890. Patented Junelfi, 1868.

' m'ixessesz f 437m Jame N.PETERS, FHOTOUTNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, DC.

DANIEL E. PARIS, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

Letters Pilate No. 78,890, dated June 16, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN WARMING-GLOSETS ON GOOKING-STOVES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,-

, Be it known that I, DANIEL E. PARIS, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rcnsselaer, and Stateof New York, have invented newand useful Improvements in Warming-Closets or Hot Ovens for Cooking-Stoves or Ranges; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and accurate description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference .marked thereon, like letters representing like parts, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cooking-stove, with both .of my ovens attached, one to the bottom of -the-stove, and the other tothc extension-piece or reservoir-sentD, to which latter oven is attached my warming- Figure 2 shows the framework and corner-supports to my lower oven, 0, seen in fig. 1.

Figure 3 shows the back warming-oven'o'r hot closet A, detached from the extension-piece D, together with the warming-rack B and the corner-supports K K. I

Figure 4 is a perspective view of an oven-slide, made to pull out of the oven, so that whatever is resting upon it can be better got at or attended to, while Figure 5 is a sectionalview of the same thing, showing the way the two pieces are put together.

I now proceed to describe more particularly the arrangement and construction of these hot closets, together with a statement of their usefulness,durability, and cheapness.

Ovens for this purpose have been made, heretofore, to go underneath the bottom of stoves, and to go back of them also; so that nothing new is claimed in position simply. The construction of the ovens or closets, themselves, is new, together with the manner of their attachment to the stove. The warming-rack B is believed to be entirely new'in its location, construction, and arrangement, while the slide M is believed also to he new, and is adapted to either the baking-oven of a stove, or to a warming-oven, and it would be all the more valuable to get a gentle he'atfor the article placed on it, by its being pulled out of the oven, were it not for the warming-rack, which gives a place of moderate temperature, such as would be needed on a stove to raise bread, dry fruit, dry wood, or simply keep things warm, and not hot, as the closettwould do. The necessity of simply a warm place, not a hot place, about a stove, has led to the construction of this warming-rack B.

The closet A is attached to and supported by the reservoir-seat or extension-piece D, which is fully described in another application, of even date herewith,and marked B. It is attached by means of bolts, that pass through the extension-piece D, and thence through the ears F F, which latter are fastened by a nut and screw below! i Any other mode of fastening will do as well; this is the way I prefer to do it. The closet is madeimframework, two end-frames, with a door hung to each frame; also with two-bottom pieces, that connect the two endframes and holdthem in their places. There is also a back upright piece, 0, and one or more bottoin pieces, H H, to support the sheet metal. I make all those pieces of cast iron, but I make thebottom and back of" the closet of sheet iron or tin, while the front of the closet is formed by the back plate of the stove, and the top by the reservoir-seat orextcnsion-piece D. Thus, as I have only to make two ends, a back and bottom, to my closet, I can make it at a great deal less expense than the old style of closet, and as the back and bottom areformed by one straight piece of sheet metal, it requires no. labor or skill to construct it Thus I can furnish this closet for half the usual. price of the old style of closet. That extremely useful'and convenient place, the warming-rack B, is also constructed with very little expense, it being composed of simply the rack itself and the two corner-supports K K, the front side being supported by the rear moulding of thebottom-plate of the stove.

The warming-rack and warming-closet may exchange places,lif desired, the rack he placed over the top of r the closet, and the bottom of the closet placed down where the rack now is; and in that case the corner-supports K K would be attached directly to the top cxtension-piece D; but this arrangement would be less desirable.

The slide M may not he required in this even, unless it is made high between joints. But the-feature of tion with the bottom :llues thereof.

shoving or moving out and in, and of remaining as and where put, will be equally or more useiul in a bakingoven as in a warming-oven; and it may take the place of the crane or bottom slide, shown irr'another application, of even date herewith, marked D and become useful, either in connection with a roasting-rack, or of itself, as articles, while cooking in a baking-oven, often want attending to, and it is far easier and more pleasant to do it-when the slide is pulled out, than when left in the oven.

The lowerovcn, C, I use mostly with reservoir-stoves, where the reservoir is placed below the top of the stove, and yet many prefer it located here, rather than on the back of the stove. It is constructed very similar to the one on the rear ofthestove. It has-two end-frames, connected together by the corner-supports t t, which are looked into the frames at each lower corner, at a o, while there are two stay-pieces, u, a, one looked into each of the pieces *6 t. The pieces t t, as well as the pieces a u, are designed to be made of castiron, while the bottom and two sides of the oven are made of sheet iron or tin, the former pieces being designed simply to hold this sheet metal in its place, andthe two frames 1' r together. 'The frames are provided with double doors, and

are fastened to the bottom of the stove bymeans of bolts passing through theside-moulding of the stove bottom at z z, and through the ears '3 3 seen in fig. 2, and are fastened by a nut ahd screw below. Any other means 0f attachment to the bottom, or to other plates ofthe stoveymaybe used, but the mode described is probably the simplest and least expensive. I

Instead of being attached to the stove, the closet may sit and move out and 'in on rollers, (as seen at W W in fig. 1,) but this would be less desirable. I

The arrangement of supporting the hot oven or closet by the bottom of the stove, or by the stove itself, is

a most excellent feature. I-Ieretofore warming-closets thus situated have supported the stove, rather than that the stove supports the closet. This is thc'reverse of what it should be, for the reason that not every person who buys a stovewants awarming-oven, or perhaps he wants it after he has had the stove a year or two. Andabove all, thephrchaser wants something cheap, convenient, and easily attached. This oven sells for half the price ofany other, is light, and easily attached by any pe'rson,' an d to any'stove that has the holes east through the bottom, or any similar meansof attachment, Bottom closets make the oven bake better, by keeping the coldair oil" from the bottom lines of the stove, thus acting as a protecting jacket or casing for the bottomof the stove. I I

It will be seen from the above description, that I use no solder or adhesive material of any kind, in the construction 'ofmy hot closets. All the pieces are made from patterns given to cook workman, and it'may take a half a dozen different men to'produce one closet, each making his own separate piece in the department in which he works, and when the pieces are brought together it requires no skillor time to unite them,bcing easily and simply locked or bolted to each other, and without the use ofsolder, as with other closets. In other words,

I save, by my mode of constructing the closet, the entire expense of making it, for when each separate piece is made, the closet is made, while, with t1ie.old style of closet, this was less than half the work.

I am aware that warming-closets or hot ovens have heretofore been placed under stoves, and -in combina- I am aware also that hot closets have been placed also on the rear of stoves, in the same position as mine is placed; so that I claim nothing new in this respect. The object of my claim' is simply to secure a stronger (for my closets, being made mostly of cast-iron, are much stronger than any other,) and a cheaper mode of construction. -I do not make any claim for the use of any particular kind of material. I simply describe the material I use, for it is the cheapest I know of.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A warming-oven to a cooking-stove, situated underneath and supported by the bottom of the same, situ ated between and in combination with the supporting-legs of the stove, when made in .framework and con-' structed substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In combination with the warming-rack below, and the reservoir-seat above, a hot oven or closet, made in framework, the different parts being put together by means of bolts, looks, or lugs, and without the use of solder or other adhesive material, when constructed substantially in the manner and for the-purpose herein shown and described. i h

3. A warming-rack, situated below, a; warming-closet', having its rear side pai-Ttlyo'r wholly supported by pendent bars, or their equivalent, attached both to the rack andthe closet above, for the purpose and substantially in the manner herein shown and described. I v

4. The slide-M, or its equivalent, placed in baking-ovens or warming-closets, and made to be'self-supporting, when drawn'out of -said'oven or closet, for the purpose herein described and set forth. I

I I DANL E. PARIS. Witnesses:

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Guns. E. POTTER. 

